Doris White didn’t live to see the conclusion of her lawsuit against the North Carolina Department of Transportation, but her attorney, Matthew Bryant of Hendrick Bryant Nerhood Sanders & Otis in Winston-Salem, said the $2.8 million settlement in her case ...

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  A perfect storm of calamities has put a standstill to many North Carolina Department of Transportation projects, and that’s keeping people whose properties lay in the path of current and planned road and highway construction in limbo, eminent domain ...

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Landowners whose development rights were frozen under the now-defunct Map Act scored a major victory after the North Carolina Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling largely affirming a Cumberland County jury verdict that awarded hefty sums of interest and attorneys’ ...

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The Map Act may be gone, but it is certainly not forgotten. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has agreed to another big-dollar settlement with a family whose land rights were frozen under the act, this time agreeing to pay ...

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It’s been a long and winding road for the North Carolina attorneys representing hundreds of property owners left in limbo after the state reserved their properties for future highway improvements. Now, clients of Neil Yarborough of Yarborough, Winters & Neville ...

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  Jurors in Cumberland County have reached verdicts in two Map Act cases that highlight the high cost that the state—and, ultimately, its taxpayers—will have to shoulder for making property owners wait years, sometimes decades, to be paid for condemnation ...

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In a condemnation case, interest is a component of just compensation. There is no conceivable reason why, on July 11, 2016, the General Assembly lowered the interest calculation only for condemnation actions filed after July 11, 2016, other than to ...

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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has lost another appeal in its increasingly expensive and protracted litigation over the Map Act, a now-defunct law that the agency used to freeze development on land in the path of proposed highway projects ...

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The North Carolina Department of Transportation has withdrawn its interlocutory appeals in the Map Act litigation in the wake of its fourth consecutive loss at a state appellate court. “We believe that they have taken the Court of Appeals opinion ...

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Beroth Oil Co. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-351-17, 36 pp.) (Philip Berger Jr., J.) (Chris Dillon, J., dissenting) Appealed from Forsyth & Guilford County Superior Courts (John Craig III, J.) N.C. App. Holding: In this ...

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